Non-refillable bottle.



(No Model.)

Patented Feb. 4, I902.

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(Applicatinn filed June 20, 1901.)

xv i '1 INKENTUHS v gm 4 M A TTOHNE UNITED STATES EDlVARI) A. JOHNSON AND GOODWIN M. ROBERTS, OFCOLUMBUS, OHIO.

NON-REFILLABLE BOTTLE.

srnorrroarron forming an-of Letters Patent No. 692,520, dated February 4, 1902, Application filed June 20,1901. Serial Nil-65,222. (No model.)

, to of non-refillable bottles; and the objects of I our invention are to provide a bottle-neck with an improved non-refillable attachment, whereby the introduction of water or other 7 liquid into the body of the bottle is prevented, to so construct our improved attachment and the bottle with which thesame is used as to insure the opening ofthe outlet-valve when the bottle is tipped to th'proper position, and to prevent the valve-actuating hall from lyzb ing in an operating position when thebottle.

is held horizontally. These objects we accomplish in the manner illustrated in the accoinpanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a view, partly'in elevation and partly in section, of a bottle having our improvements; and Fig. 2 is a plan view of the bottle-neck. Similannumerals refer to similar parts throughoutboth views. i r 1 represents a bottle-body, and 2 the neck thereof, the base of the latter being formed, as shown, with an outward bulge orglobelike projection Within the neck 2-we provide a close-fitting vertical casing 4, the latter having a tapering bottom portion as in- .dicated at 4:, and said bottom havingformed therein a central'valvc-openi-ng 5. The upper end of the internal casingd is provided.

with a fixed horizontal top disk or plate 6, 40 the latter having formed thereinadjaccnt to its border suitable openingsZr Depending from the under side and central portion of the top disk (5 are downwardly-extending and out ardly-curved fingers or strips 8, the outer ends of the latter bearing against the inner surface of the casing 4.

9 represents a valve, which, as indicated in the drawings, is of a truncated-cone form, this valve adapted to pass partially through the valve-opening 5 and servinc to .closejthe latter. Within the space between the upper end or head of the valve'i) and the fingers S is provided a valve-closing ball 10, while within the'body of the bottle we provide, as indicatedin dotted lines in Fig. 1, a valve opening ball 11. As shown in the drawings,t"the casing top disk 6'is arranged at such point below the top of the bottle-neck as to provide space above said disk for the insertion of an ordinary cork, which is indicated in dotted lines at 12.

cliued beyond a horizontal position the ball 11 will roll upward and into, contact either with the lower end or inclined surface of the valve 9,with the result that the latter is forced outward a sufliclent distanceto permits. desirable flow of the liquid contained in the bot= It is obvious that when the-cork is removed and the bottle is tipped or -in-' tle through the casing 4 andtop openings 7.

It will be understood that during this operation of pouring liquid from the bottle'the ball 10 and valve 9 will belimited in their outward movement by the fingers 6. vWhen the bottle is returned to a vertical position" 7 or partially returned to such position, it'js obvious that the valve 9 will by 'p'ressureof the ball 10 be pressed downward in the valveopening 5, resulting in closing the latter and jccted into the monthzof the bottle from passing into the body thereof.- In order to prevent the ball 11 from exerting an opening:

pressure on the valve 9 when the bottle is lying or held in a horizontal pdsition, we have providcd the base of the bottle-neck with the preventing liquid which may be pouredor'incurvcd enlargement 3, intdwhich the ball 11 may roll and be seated when the bottle is in said horizontal position".

The ball 11 is preferably formed of glass, while the internal casing a and other parts with which the liquid may come into contact in passing outiare preferably formed ofalumininm, although otherdesirable substance maybe used. 4

We are aware that ball-controlled valves have been our struction of no -rciillable bottles; but our inloyed heretofore in the convention differs from those heretofore-pro- A duced in the details of construction and arrangement of parts which are hereinafter claimed. v Having now fully described our invention, what-we claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, L v

n tpp pintefei' said casing having openings 5 therein, said tpplate having depending curved fingers 8 end said casing having a ta.- pering bottonrporiqion provided with a een- ,tral opening, a tapering valve adapted to pro- :jeet through and close the opening 5, a. ball no 10 above said valve and'a. ball arranged with- 1 in the body of the bOfibigenbstantialjy as 1 In presence ofspecified. i i v g In a non-refillable bottle. the GUiEibillfiL tionwith the bottle-body 1 and a nee nortion'f. and n i eundedienlnrgeinent 3 at the base of said neek,-0f a casing within the neck, atop plateier said casing having openings therein, said casing having a tapering bettom plOVidBCLWi'ih a central opening, a tiapeia ,ing valve for said opening as described, a ball above said valve and a ball in the body of the bobble; substantially as specified.

EDWARD A. JOHNSON. GOODVVIN M. ROBERTS.

A. L. PHELPS, W; L. Monnow. 

